Romans 9
Reading Romans chapter 9 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me testimony in the Holy Spirit,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertain] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises;
5 Whose [are] the fathers, and from whom according to the flesh, Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken no effect. For they [are] not all Israel, who are [descendants] from Israel?
7 Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, [are they] all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They who are the children of the flesh, these [are] not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this [is] the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac,
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